John W. Limbong is an Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

n educator and businessman who is the founder and president of the University of International Golden Indonesia

University of International Golden Indonesia

The University of International Golden Indonesia is an institution of higher learning located in Jakarta, Indonesia. Founded in 1983 by John W. Limbong, the University aims to espouse the standards prescribed in the Honor Code of the USA's Brigham Young University, although IGI has no official...

. He received a M.S. in Economics in 1982 from Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

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 (BYU) and subsequently earned a Ph.D. from the University of Utah

University of Utah

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 in 1982. Limbong says that while a student at BYU, one night he had a dream where Brigham Young

Brigham Young

Brigham Young was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877, he founded Salt Lake City, and he served as the first governor of the Utah...

 visited him and asked him to establish a university in Limbong's native Jakarta, Indonesia. Limbong vacillated, as he worked for Bank Indonesia

Bank Indonesia

Bank Indonesia is the central bank of The Republic of Indonesia. Bank Indonesia is currently governed by Darmin Nasution, former interim governor. The last governor before the interim phase, Boediono, resigned due to his vice presidential candidacy in the Indonesian presidential election...

for a while, but he later quit that job to pursue this dream.